Sam CookeBest Sam Cooke Albums Ranked
8.6
Avg Score
27
Opinions
25
Albums
7
Reviewers
Summary from 27 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Sam Cooke's catalog across 25 albums from 27 opinions, with an overall average of 8.6/10. The top-rated Sam Cooke album is One Night Stand! Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 (1985) with a 9.4/10 average from 4 ratings, followed by Ain't That Good News and Portrait of a Legend: 1951–1964. The discography on Wavelength spans 1958 to 2020. A Change Is Gonna Come ranks as the highest-rated Sam Cooke song on Wavelength with a 10.0/10 average.
One Night Stand! Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963
1985
Ain't That Good News
1964
Portrait of a Legend: 1951–1964
2003
Night Beat
1963
Keep Movin' On
2002
The Man Who Invented Soul
2000
My Kind of Blues
1961
Mr. Soul
1963
The Wonderful World of Sam Cooke
2007
Twistin' the Night Away
1962
The Best of Sam Cooke
1962
Encore
1958
Sam Cooke
2020
One Night Stand! Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963
“Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today we revisit a monumental artifact of soul—one of the best live albums of all time, from the singer who wrote the 20th century’s defining civil rights anthem.”
Keep Movin' On
“Of all the phases of Sam Cooke’s brief, incandescent career — from his early gospel stardom to his amazing leap into pop and soul that almost single-handedly shoved black music into the future — none is more tantalizing than the recordings he made during his final days. From 1963 until his murder in 1964, Cooke […]”
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